Dr. Stephanie Hedge (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of English and the director of the Writing Program at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she teaches classes on digital literacies, the intersections between English studies and emergent technologies, and the ways that words do work in the world. She researches digitally mediated pedagogies and games, and she is the coeditor of Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling,Tabletop RPGs and Fandom from McFarland (2021).